Rosemary Griggs

St John the Baptist Church Marldon, Devon

Built around the year 1400, the tower with its polygonal stair turret is the oldest part of the structure. The church was rebuilt around 1450, a chapel added 1520, and the chancel restored 1874.

#SteepleSaturday

This weeks selection from my spring garden in Devon.The little tulips ( top right) are fully open.

#FlowersOnFriday #garden

15th century font in the former Victorian church of St Leonard, now Newton Abbot Museum. The font was moved to St Leonard’s, from Salcombe in 1877.

Modern paint on the shields was carefully removed during conservation.

#FontsonFriday

Magnolia Shiraz in all her spring glory.

#magnolia #Blossom

Happy World Book Day!

What better day to pick up a copy of my award winning Daughters of Devon novels.

From UK bookshops as paperback, and Ebook. Books 1+ 2 also in
audio format — book 3 audio coming soon!

rosemarygriggs.co.uk/books/

#worldbookday #historicalfiction #devon #womeninhistory

Weathered woodwork on a little door at St. Andrew’s Church Buckland Monachorum , Devon a medieval church largely rebuilt late 15th and 16th century.

#AdoorableThursday

A face carved on a bench end at St Eustachius, Tavistock, Devon.

Most of the bench ends date from the restoration in 1844-5.

I’m not sure about this one!

#woodensday
#woodcarvingwednesday

Delicate little blooms - always the first Tulips to appear in my Devon garden.

#tuliptuesday

Medieval floor tiles at Winchester Cathedral — vast pavements of tiles with many different designs.

📷 from a visit on 2022

#TilesOnTuesday #medieval

It had one two days ago, now it’s covered!

Magnolia stellata in my Devon garden today

#spring #magnolia

Monument to Mildred Cecil, Lady Burghley and her daughter Anne, Countess of Oxford in Westminster Abbey.

Mildred's husband William Cecil, Lord Burghley kneels above.

#monumentsmonday

A collage of daffodils from my Devon garden

Happy St David’s Day!

#StDavidsDay #daffodils

Something more modern today. Two beautiful windows by stained-glass artist, Tom Denny in Tewkesbury Abbey.

#StainedGlassSunday

Meanwhile in my Devon greenhouse green shoots are appearing. Sweet peas, stattice and helichrysum. I’m growing a few flowers for drying this season.

#greenhouse #gardening

St. John the Baptist Church, Marldon, Devon. The tower was built mid 15th century and the Gilbert Chapel added 1520 by John Gilbert of Compton and Greenway. In February 1547 Otho Gilbert was buried here.

#SteepleSaturday

I’ve been spending a lot of time with this intriguing woman today.

The first page proofs are in!

Hoping to pick up my needle again soon.

#mybook #katashley #queenelizabethsgoverness #proofreading

Today’s font is from the 12th century at the delightful little church of St Pancras in Exeter.

#FontsonFriday #exeter

It’s getting quite colourful in my Devon garden this week.

#FlowersOnFriday #spring

A small door at St John the Baptist Church, Marldon, Devon.

#AdoorableThursday

#WindowsOnWednesday
Dartmouth Castle.

📷 from April 2023

At last — a couple of hours in the garden! Still very soggy but I made a start. Managed to ‘loose’ the hand fork I was using to prize out the weeds. I expect it will turn up!

#gardening

Jacobean pulpit with foliage around rectangular panels, St Pancras Chirch, Exeter. It was among the items brought to St Pancras when Allhallows in Goldsmith Street was demolished in 1906,

#woodensday #woodcarvingwednesday

That’s wonderful- thanks again!

Brilliant— thank you. I’ll look out for that on other embroideries and paintings in future. I’ve also just discovered that the ‘Tau’ cross is another clue that it’s St. Anthony.

The first tulip of 2026 in my Devon garden — an early flowering species tulip.

#tuliptuesday #tulips #springisontheway

That’s really helpful, thank you. The gold thread has survived incredibly well. St Anthony it is!

Thanks - I was wondering about the grid he’s standing on?

Another look at a late 15th/early 16th century chasuble velvet embroidered in coloured silks and silver and silver-gilt thread. On display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

I think this is St Jerome?

#textiletuesday
#embroidery

Crocus welcoming the sun in my Devon garden.

#garden